@Eggs These were all great guides, if you ever get the chance to go to Normandy. We went in September 2023.
#NeverForget #D-Day #DDay

This was an excellent travel guide to D-Day Normandy #d-day #DDay

Chapter 2
Young Girl In Paradise
Francis Picabia

#EuropaCollective

Enjoying this book from a debut author I met at Adventures By The Book Superbook 6 in San Diego in March.
A Healer & Herbalist trying to protect her people of Avignon, France from the 1437 Black Plague Provence.

I am finding I love books about Female Healers, Herbalists, & Midwives
#14BooksIn14Weeks

Chapter 1: Encirclement
Starting Gabriële for #EuropaCollective
It‘s an interesting concept to have each chapter be named after Francis Picabia‘s artwork
I haven‘t read a book in first person tense in a long time. It‘s an interesting concept that they wanted it to be a “living tense“.

Here‘s my hopeful #14booksin14weeks ! Starting with Eleanore and Gabriële

This was a sweet read. I loved the dolls and their positivity despite hard times. Hip! Hip! Hooray for the Fairies 🧚‍♀️
I was pleasantly surprised by 2 colored illustrations towards the end of the book!

It‘s June! Time for a sneak peek of #EuropaCollective
Read at your own pace & post throughout the month as often as you like.
In The Postcard, we learned that Gabriële is a controversial figure, a woman behind artists. Let‘s learn more about her.
All are welcome! ????

Starting late on my #ChildrensClassicRead2025

I was able to get this & next month‘s Firebird from my library!

This book makes me want to jump on a plane to Paris and walk through the Louvre as I read it!
I‘m thankful I‘ve been lucky enough to have previously gone to the Louvre, but I‘m ready to go back!

Pg 409
The “Collège des Quatre-Nations” (College of Four Nations) in Paris was established in 1661 by Cardinal Mazarin in his will. It was created to educate students from four territories that had recently come under French control through the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) and the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659).

May 1
Book Six Petit-Picpus
IV Gladness pg 442

Fun facts about 2 of the Perrault brothers. Between 1667-1670 Claude designed the East façade of the Louvre & Charles published Tales of Mother Goose in 1697. ?️????

Behind, but plugging along! Just finished April 27.
Yay! JVJ & Cossette escaped Javert!
And met Père Dauchelevent! ? ? ?

#ReadLesMis

#weirdwords #weirdwordWednesday

from the book:
Barbara Newhall Follett
(A Life In Letters)

My husband sent me this link today

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16G5TE2q1Y/?mibextid=wwXIfr

#ReadLesMis

I‘m really enjoying May‘s @litsybookclub book! I‘ve always glass blowing. As a kid whenever we went to Silverdollar city we would always watch the glassblowers. Interestingly, the glass blowers were confined to one island off of Italy to help protect their glass blowing secrets!

I just looked at my calendar 📆 and saw this was a special day!
💖💖💖Happy Litsyversary to me! 🎶📚🎶📚🎶📚

I‘m so thankful for all my #Litten friends and all of the books and love shared throughout these 9 years!!!

#Litsyversary

So excited for Fredrik Backman‘s author event in St Louis tonight! Had a great 7 hour drive here with my son who‘s visiting us this week from San Diego.

So excited for Fredrik Backman‘s author event in St Louis tonight! Had a great 7 hour drive here with my son who‘s visiting us this week from San Diego.

#EuropaCollective

Is anyone interested in a JUNE #EuropaCollective #BuddyRead from the author of The Postcard?

I‘m planning to read it, and would love to have others join me. It will be an informal, read at your own pace #buddyread
@LitsyEvents please repost

@jlhammar @mcctrish @GatheringBooks @kspenmoll @Gleefulreader @Tamra @LeahBergen @TheBookDream @DrexEdit

I‘m 33% in.
This book is an interesting look at the history of Barbie, the design of her proportions & clothing, and her creators.

I‘ve had fun traveling around to see the Friends & Fiction authors! Windsor, CO to see Kristin Harmel, Wheaton College in Illinois to see Patti Callahan Henry, and St Louis to see all 4- including KristyWoodson Harvey and Mary Kate Andrews, along with managing director Meghan Walker and librarian Ron Block! 🩵🩵🩵

I‘m behind on my reading (April 13) since I‘ve been traveling on the weekends, so maybe I can get a little reading in at work! I‘m so thankful that Cossette is with Jean Valjean! 🇫🇷💙🤍❤️ 🇫🇷
#READLESMIS

I‘m behind on my reading (April 13) since I‘ve been traveling on the weekends, so maybe I can get a little reading in at work! I‘m so thankful that Cossette is with Jean Valjean! 🇫🇷💙🤍❤️
#READLESMIS

Happy National Tell A Story Day!

Happy Quasimodo Sunday, now more commonly called Divine Mercy Sunday

🇫🇷 Some Victor Hugo Trivia 🇫🇷

How Victor Hugo‘s the Hunchback got his name:

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/41133/quasimodo-sunday-how-the-hunchback...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/16/world/notre-dame-hunchback-art-trnd/index.html?ci...

#READLESMIS

Ready, Set, Go! To your local bookstore on Indie Bookstore Day!
#IndieBookstoreDay

Reading and drinking my coffee before my 7.5 hour road trip to Windsor, Colorado to see Kristin Harmel at the #ClearviewReads2025 Library Community Reads Event on Saturday evening. Hoping to do a little bookstore browsing in Ft Collins during the day tomorrow for #IndieBookstoreDay

This book has been optioned for a movie, so I thought I‘d read it. It is one she wrote before writing historical fiction. There seems to be a a time warp in which she is able to see how her life would have been if her husband hadn‘t suddenly died. 🐶 Bandette is a little embarrassed by her shaggy look this morning! #DogsOfLitsy

The Book of Lost Names is a beautifully written tribute to quiet heroism. It is a story about the courage to defy, the strength to remember, and the quiet rebellion of a woman with a pen. Eva found a way to remember as well as save displaced children
#FrenchResistence
#ResistenceForgers

For those who have read or re- read Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby for its 100 years Anniversary,
The Double Bind is a great companion read with its nod to the classic.

📣FYI JD Robb fans! I just preordered this In Depth inspired cookbook from her husband‘s bookstore-which I really want to visit, esp after reading Nora Robert‘s Boonsboro Trilogy
Girls' Night Out Thursday, May 15th 5-9pm &
Thursday, Nov 20th 5-9pm.
Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb,
Carla Vergot, Misty Lynn and S.P. O'Farrell
Toni McCannon will be offering tarot card readings (for a small fee).
#IDLR #InDeathLongReadalong
💥Link Below

Pg 342 April 2
The Caracara polyborus vulture

@centerforbirdsofprey/video/7348911368772308266" rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://www.tiktok.com/@centerforbirdsofprey/video/7348911368772308266

#READLESMIS

I couldn‘t get to any of her author events, so I did the next best thing- bought too many bookish gifts for myself & listened to Patti Callahan Henry‘s online talks on YouTube!
🩷🩵🩷
Trifecta! A magical morning with The Story She Left Behind, English breakfast tea from the March #BrendaNovaksBookBox , and sitting cozy in my #PrintFresh PJs with Bandette
#DogsOfLitsy

FYI- for any #Littens that live nearby
#EuropaCollective

Such a cute book with adorable illustrations! 🐭 🏡
I finally read an archive book that @TheBookHippie shared the link of.
It‘s much easier to read on my computer than my phone. 🤩
I love the library card 🩵
Juniata College Library is now named L A Beeghly Library & Juniata College was founded in 1876 by members of the Church of the Brethren.

#ChildrensClassicRead2025

For those who loved The Road to Dalton for our #EuropaCollective #BuddyRead, the 3rd book in the trilogy will release in the USA on Oct 7, 2025

Is anyone interested in a #BuddyRead from the author of The Postcard from #EuropaCollective ?
The book will be published APRIL 22.
Let‘s read it in JUNE!

This “spell book” was written & illustrated in response to the Oxford Junior Dictionary dropping 40 common words concerning nature & substituting words of the indoor and virtual (eg. otter vs blog).
The illustrations of 20 of these words with poems are indeed spelled binding.
This book is part of the inspiration of Patti Callahan Henry‘s new book The Story She Left Behind.

Listening to 9 yo Barbara Newhall Follett‘s House Without Windows & Patti‘s audiobook while waiting for my book mail of The Story She Left Behind. Patti Callahan Henry once again swept me down a Rabbit Hole of research!
BNF @ 4 yo learned to read & type. At 9 yo created her own land & language. Reading Barbara Newhall Follett‘s Letters, The Lost Words, & about Beatrix Potter & HER secret language, and THEIR love of nature
#Farksolia
#Farksoo

What defines a Real American?
A multigenerational story told by 3 points of view. Looking at parent- child relationships, ethnic backgrounds vs citizenship, with a slight sci- fi twist.

#LitsyBookClub

@DieAReader lol 😂 another attempt
#Waterloo
#READLESMIS

I can‘t find a great map though @DieAReader
#READLESMIS

#Waterloo

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Waterloo_map.png

@DieAReader pg 286 gives a description of the areas as an ‘A‘ I drew a too small picture of that in my book, then tried to screenshot the google map. Not the greatest but it helped… 🤭😀🤣🤪😝
#READLESMIS

#Waterloo

6/18/1815 4:00 PM
The Germans (Hanoverians & Dutch) fighting for the English were outnumbered & out-munitioned by Napoleon‘s French army and could not defend La Haie-Sainte
42 survived, 3000 died.
#Waterloo
#READLESMIS

The Story She Left Behind releases Tuesday! Meanwhile, I‘m reading The Lost Words & Barbara Newhall Follett Letters. BNF inspired Patti Callahan Henry‘s latest novel.
BNF had her 1st book published at the age of 12 yo. At 26 yo, after a spat with her husband, she left the house & has never been found.
As a child, she created a complex imaginary world & complete language to go with it!

The Southern Gate. Restored in 2015 for 200th Anniversary of The Battle of Waterloo

#READLESMIS

#Waterloo

Hougoumont prior to The Battle of Waterloo

#READLESMIS

Bandette reading with me while I read Les Misérables. She brings me comfort while reading about poor Fantine. ❣️????❤️ ?? ❣️
#READLESMIS

It was wonderful re- visiting a favorite childhood author. I have saved a couple of her books- oh my, could they be 50 years old?!. ( Stormy still has the cover paper!)
Sadly, I can‘t find my Misty of Chincoteague.
Thanks @TheBookHippie for a walk down memory lane. Now to start March‘s book! #ChildrensClassicRead2025